The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to lift the last remaining sanctions on Liberia in a sign of support for the government's progress towards peace after two civil wars.

A teenage boy has died of Ebola in Liberia, the first fatality since July in one of the three West African countries hit hardest by the worst-ever outbreak of the disease.

Health officials in Liberia have confirmed a new case of Ebola more than two months after the west African nation was declared free of the deadly disease for a second time.

Consular assistance is being provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs after an Irish woman died in Liberia.

A woman with dual Irish-American citizenship has died in Liberia, it has been reported.

Liberia’s deputy health minister says that a second person has died from Ebola in the latest resurgence of the deadly disease.

Liberian officials have confirmed a second Ebola case in the same town where the disease was detected days earlier on the corpse of teenager.

Musa Bility, president of the Liberia FA, has announced his intention to stand for the Fifa presidency.

Liberia has confirmed a new case of Ebola, after a 20-day period where no new cases had been reported.

A patient in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola more than two weeks after the last case was discharged, senior officials say.

Liberia has released its last Ebola patient from a treatment centre in the capital Monrovia, beginning its countdown to being declared Ebola-free.

Liberia's president has called for an international aid plan to help rebuild economies in West Africa once Ebola is under control.

Eight health workers at a hospital in the Liberian capital have been sent home for 21 days of observation after being in contact with a patient who later tested positive for Ebola.

The ebola outbreak could set the formerly war-torn countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia back a decade, Ireland’s first ambassador to the region has warned.

An election that was supposed to solidify peace in Liberia has been marred by dismal turnout after the opposition went ahead with a boycott despite last-minute appeals from the US and the UN.

Violence has broken out at opposition headquarters in Liberia, killing at least one person hours before a presidential run-off today.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor today boycotted the landmark first international war crimes trial of a former African leader being held in The Hague, Netherlands.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty today to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, mutilation and sending children into combat.

The UN-backed Sierra Leone court has charged former warlord and ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor with crimes against humanity and other violations of international law committed within Sierra Leone by rebels he allegedly helped direct and arm between 1996 and 2002.

Infamous warlord, accused blood diamond merchant and former Liberian President Charles Taylor will be in the dock today before a war crimes tribunal bent on sending a powerful message to the world’s despots that no one is above the law.

AP Chief of African News Michelle Faul covered both sides of Liberia’s civil war and the war in Sierra Leone from 1990 to 1994, when she was West Africa Correspondent.

Britain circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution yesterday that would move the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands because of the danger he would pose by remaining in the West Africa region.

Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has been arrested, Nigerian police said today.

Defence Minister Michael Smith has warned not to underestimate the risks of the Irish Army’s latest mission in Liberia.

US military planes and helicopters carried the last few American ground forces out of war-ruined Liberia – leaving Liberians thankful for their help, but dismayed at their silent withdrawal.

Liberian authorities have agreed to pull government forces from a main road connecting the newly calm capital Monrovia with the country’s volatile interior, paving the way for African peacekeepers’ first countryside deployment a day later, the defence minister said today.

Liberia’s rebels and government picked a Monrovia businessman to lead the country’s post-war transition government, delegates told the Associated Press today after a day and night of deliberations.

Liberian rebels locked in peace talks have said a power-sharing deal could be signed as early as today.

Tens of thousands of hungry Liberians broke though barricades on Monrovia’s frontline bridges today in a desperate search for food, reuniting the capital after 10 weeks of rebel siege.

Rebels lifted their two month siege of Liberia’s starving capital today, not long after scores of US marines were flown in by helicopters.

US troops in jungle camouflage landed at Liberia’s main airport today on a mission to help bring aid to civilians battered by a brutal civil war.

Liberia’s main rebel movement has agreed to withdraw from the capital and its vital port, allowing food to flow to the starving city left in ruins after two months of sieges.

Fleeing refugees reported vicious attacks today as Liberia’s second rebel group began pressing toward the capital.

Defiant to the end, Liberian President Charles Taylor resigned today but said: “God willing, I will be back.”

Liberian president Charles Taylor was due to step down today but in a final address to the nation he declared himself a “sacrificial lamb” and accused the US of arming the country’s rebels.

The Government is to provide €2m for emergency humanitarian assistance in response to the current crisis in Liberia.

A long-heralded peacekeeping force rolled into Liberia’s rebel-besieged capital to deafening welcome by the Monrovia’s desperate people today.

US President George W Bush has authorised a small contingent of US troops to enter Liberia to provide logistical support for West African peacekeeping forces in the war-ravaged country, a senior administration official said.

West African troops and desperately-needed aid flowed toward Liberia’s beleaguered capital today, as relief groups jumped at deployment of the first peacekeepers to hurry food and medical supplies to Monrovia.

Nigerian peacekeepers faced a daunting task today as they prepared to enter the Liberian capital Monrovia, which has been under rebel siege for two months.

Nigerian soldiers landed a few dozen at a time in a peace deployment that is planned to build to a 3,250-strong force with the goal of ending 14 years of carnage in Liberia under warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor.

The vanguard of a West African force aiming at stopping Liberia’s brutal civil war landed today at the airport on the outskirts of the capital Monrovia, which has been under rebel siege for two months.

Frightened residents of Liberia’s besieged capital Monrovia were preparing to welcome the first troops from a regional peacekeeping force today.